Sumitomo Mitsui Hiring Barclays Private Bankers as Ties End

Will pay as much as 12 billion yen to terminate partnership Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. will hire about 20 private bankers from Barclays Plc in Japan as the two companies end a six-year alliance and the U.K. bank scales back its wealth-management …
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